Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-14

manipulation. On the face it woull
seem thatthe North was made to be go T.
rned by the Southern minority. l.
it was united and harmonious this is
y result that could not be reached.
1t is just because it cannot, by the
detection to which reference is made
be so, that the symbols of power have
been wrested from it. 1t is the oper-
alton of the old principle of dioide ct
impera. 1t is the North that is di-
vded and commanded 1t may bt'
that Southern rule is the best for US
but the circumstance cannot be re-
garded as fattering to Northern ability
or Northern political knowledge.
1t is true the Democracy will carr.
10 the next National campaign sixteen
Southern States, some OF them, as
Texas, by lar1e n!ajorities, others, a
Maryland, the two Virginias, and
Kentucky by rather close figures. 1t
is also true that the one hundred and
ffty-three votes cast by these States,
with the thirty-six held by New York
will give our party one hundred and
eighty-nine votes, and that twelve
more votes will give us two hundred
and one, q majority IN
the Electoral College. Again it
| is true that the Republicans
have reason to hope that they will
carry fourteen Northern States which
cast one hundred and sixty-seven
Electoral votes. There remains SIX
States-California Connecticut, lndl-
ana, Nevada, New Jersey and Oregon
as debatable ground. One more
proposltion-of the forty-four to be
cast by these six States the chance OF
getting twelve for the Democratic
ticket is much better than the posi-
bility of getting them all on the Re-
publican side. Most OF them are
close States. California is uncertain.
With any other standard bearer than
Blaine. our vote is safe for MIR.
Cleveland.
Now. there are all the facts and
probabilities. and they are calculated
to raise anything in the mind OF
fair man rather than sectional bitter
ness. For here are six states north Of.
Mason and Dixon's line SO evenly di-
vided as to be doubtful in their political
preferences. Here is the Empire State
conceded by the Republicans as pro-
badly Democratic. And OF those given
over to to the Republicans there are
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
and Wisconsin, in which the Repub-
lican possibilities are simply better
than good Fighting chances" There
is no room to take desperate chanc s
on any OF them. Ohio, one of the
strongest Republican States in the
Union, has nearly three hundred and
seventy thousand Democratic voters.
The Republican vote ranges at from
fifteen thousand to thirty-five thou
sand more. In Iowa, the one
party leads the other by only ten
thousand to eighteen thousand votes.
In New Hampshire Blaine beat
Cleveland by less than two thousand.
Blaine's majority in Illinois vas only
We thousand. Maine cast
only thirteen thousand nine hundred
and fifty-six more Republican than
Democratic votes, despite the fact
that her own man was the recipient
OF her vote.
The Democratic party is the Ma
tional party, and it is the only Ma
tional party. There is nothing sec
tional about it. There is no room to
get up sectional animosities on its
behalf. Why, Mr.. Cleveland received
over three million votes in the
Northern States. "On the face" OF
that, sit would seem," that the state
ment was in plain English lie by
whomsoever made, that "the North
was to be governed by the Southern
minority" In the Democratic party
the Nation-we know no North nor
South in this-is governed by ma
jority of the voters of the Nation, and
this majority is drawn from no Sec
ton, but from all parts Of the country.